Makes me wonder what possible correlation their could be to the rise in colon cancer and the use of sugar substitutes instead of good old sugar? And I just picked up a gallon of Splenda at Costco! Umph.
While there are problems facing these download services, I am willing to give them a try. At least one-third of the DVDs I have rented from Netflix have skipped and stopped during playback because of scratches, etc. The problem doubles to nearly two-thirds with HD-DVDs (which seem to stop altogether much more often for minor blemishes on the disc). If the downloads are verified before playback with a hash check or something and the movie actually runs through to the end, sounds like a step forward to me if the quality of the original DVD can be preserved. I am fortunate to have FTTH, so I am looking for some advantage to having the bandwidth. I'll be happy not to have my move interrupted several times so that I can Windex the disk to get it going again!
If you are travelling abroad, you show your passport (quite willingly) to just about every tom, dick, and harry in world anyway. Check into a hotel, show your passport (sometimes they even TAKE IT FOR DAYS OR UNTIL YOU LEAVE like in Italy and many other places - who knows who is looking at it all that time! In MANY countries, that is the LAW!). Take a train, show your passport. Go to the casino, you'll probably present it again. A night on the town to a club, show it again. Who the heck needs James Bond gizzmos? The info in your passport wasn't suppose to be a secret! It is shown and looked at constantly. Let me guess, your whole family gets assigned a fake name to call each other when you travel because you don't want anyone to know your Archie and your wife is Edith.... Meathead.
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Makes me wonder what possible correlation their could be to the rise in colon cancer and the use of sugar substitutes instead of good old sugar? And I just picked up a gallon of Splenda at Costco! Umph.
While there are problems facing these download services, I am willing to give them a try. At least one-third of the DVDs I have rented from Netflix have skipped and stopped during playback because of scratches, etc. The problem doubles to nearly two-thirds with HD-DVDs (which seem to stop altogether much more often for minor blemishes on the disc). If the downloads are verified before playback with a hash check or something and the movie actually runs through to the end, sounds like a step forward to me if the quality of the original DVD can be preserved. I am fortunate to have FTTH, so I am looking for some advantage to having the bandwidth. I'll be happy not to have my move interrupted several times so that I can Windex the disk to get it going again!
If you are travelling abroad, you show your passport (quite willingly) to just about every tom, dick, and harry in world anyway. Check into a hotel, show your passport (sometimes they even TAKE IT FOR DAYS OR UNTIL YOU LEAVE like in Italy and many other places - who knows who is looking at it all that time! In MANY countries, that is the LAW!). Take a train, show your passport. Go to the casino, you'll probably present it again. A night on the town to a club, show it again. Who the heck needs James Bond gizzmos? The info in your passport wasn't suppose to be a secret! It is shown and looked at constantly. Let me guess, your whole family gets assigned a fake name to call each other when you travel because you don't want anyone to know your Archie and your wife is Edith.... Meathead.